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Here’s the latest Avengers: Infinity War, YouTube trailer

Avengers: Infinity War is coming soon from  Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is intended to be the sequel to 2012’s Marvel’s The Avengers and 2015’s Avengers: Age of Ultron and the nineteenth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film is directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, with a screenplay by the writing team of Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, and features an ensemble castincluding Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Benedict Cumberbatch, Don Cheadle, Tom Holland, Chadwick Boseman, Paul Bettany, Elizabeth Olsen, Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Danai Gurira, Letitia Wright, Dave Bautista, Zoe Saldana, Josh Brolin, and Chris Pratt, among other actors from previous MCU films. In Avengers: Infinity War, the Avengers join forces with the Guardians of the Galaxy to stop Thanos, who is trying to collect the Infinity Stones.

Avengers: Infinity War is scheduled to have its world premiere on April 23, 2018 in Los Angeles, and is scheduled to be released in the United States on April 27, 2018, in IMAX and 3D. The sequel is scheduled to be released on May 3, 2019.

(Sources: Wikipedia, therealstanlee.com.)

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Archives Spotlight

Archive’s Spotlight is designed to look at all which has come before and add new comments as well. This posting we are reviewing Project New Man 3 Page 9!

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Project: New Man #3 – Page 9 – We are back to working on changes related to the background and the use simulated  Duo-Shade for the backgrounds of Project: NewMan #3. But due to several unforeseen delays, including the page was a bit harder to clean off than some of the others, this is the only one we have to show today. The next page is in the works but could not be finished in time for today’s blog. To the left you can see, and click to see a larger image of the, original page as it was scanned so many moons ago. Unfortunately the 25 year old original art pages Duo-Shade tones had faded some and so the scanner could not pick up everything as it was originally produced.  To the right you can see the cleaned up, restored art for page 9 of Project NewMan # 3. You can see a big difference. It may not be perfect but it is a lot better. Mark says this is about a 95% restoration to the original. In some ways it’s even better. He also informed us the tones on the original Duo-Shade art boards did not develop as well as it should have when these were first produced. It could have been some old developer fluid or maybe the art boards were old when purchased but some areas did not develop as clearly as should have. So in that way these are better than the originals.

Check back next week for more pages in PNM #3 will be updated in prepping these books for printing with Ka-Blam Comic Book Printing and digital sales at IndyPlanet as well as DriveThru Comics in the weeks to come.

Speaking of our digital editions at IndyPlanet and DriveThru Comics: Here’s what we have on sale right now. You can still download Project: NewMan #1 and Humants # 1 for absolutely FREE! Project: NewMan # 2 and Humants # 2 can be downloaded now, for immediate gratification, for a mere 99ç each! And if you want actual hard copy prints the Indyplanet will sale those to you for only $2.99 each!

So don’t wait, get you some Mega Comics Group / Legacy Comics goodness today! Check out the cover links to DriveThru Comics and Indy Planet.

Mark’s Remarks:

Publishers Note: Yes, we cut it a little short today. We have had several marathon posts of late so we decided to take a little break and keep it short and sweet today. Onward! Mark

CU Next Week!

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AAF Week 9 Begins CANCELED!

Everything on the AAF App for iPhone and Android Still works except ticket sales.

AAF week 9 WAS this weekend! There were 2 more games left in the inaugural, regular season, with 2 playoff games and a championship game yet to be played.  Now there are none! 

The Alliance of American Football has suspended operations. Yes, for true football fans, those of us who would watch the game year round if we could, this is indeed a sad day! The AAF was meant to be a feeder or farm league for the NFL. The football side of the operations was set up well enough but from sources we’ve heard the business side was not. We noticed early on there was almost no advertising of the new league so we wondered just how many football fans really knew about it. We also noticed the stadiums were not drawing large crowds. The record was set by San Antonio a couple weeks ago when thy reached 30,ooo. Most we observed did not look like they had a thousand people in them so it’s safe to say they were probably losing money on ticket sales. We also noted that the games were not broadcast on the regular outlets. CBS put most games on there CBS Direct Access pay app rather than the CBS national broadcast channel. There were no games on ESPN. There were games on the NFL Network. The others were cable networks like TNT. You could get a raw footage view of the game on the AAF App which was nice but there was no announcer or on screen score box or clock.

All that leads us to believe that the AAF was launched a year too soon. Had they waited another year and built their infrastructure during that time they might have pulled it off. Rumors were flying that the XFL was going to relaunch in 2020, so the AAF powers that be probably thought they needed to get ahead of the competition. They had trouble meeting payroll and covering a lot of other costs which came to a head about the second or third week of play. That’s when Tom Dundon came to the rescue with a promise of 250 million dollars to help bankroll the start-up. After $70,00o,ooo into it, he decided to pull the plug. He had been given total authority over the AAF when he came on board with the needed and promised funds. That was probably a mistake. There are a lot of rumors an accusations flying around now but who knows what is true.

The AAF Standings FINAL STANDINGS! 

So here we are. Players and coaches are out of work and fans are denied seeing the full season played out. No more Winter/Spring Football League! Even though the games are over the web site and the phone app are still working as of this writing, all except ticket sales, of course. The App was/is cutting edge! You could watch the box score to follow the game and play a game in itself by predicting the next play for your own points while you monitored the scoring. You could also watch a raw footage view of the game which was nice but there was no announcer or on screen score box or clock. Previous weeks games could be replayed from the App Score Box too. All this is still available at the time of this writing but it probably won’t be up much longer.

It was fun while it lasted! The AAF was a good package but it was not given long enough to build a fan base. The original plan was based on a 3 year building process. That’s why we think it was a bad thing to allow Tom Dundon to have the authority to shut it down if he did not think it was working. Sure he was investing the money so conventional wisdom says he should call the shots, but it takes time to build something like this. We can understand, he may have been looking at the rate of return on the $70,00o,ooo he had already sunk into the league and did not think it would catch on in time to return a profit. True, not many have $250,00o,ooo to just throw away on a risky venture. So it may not have been avoidable. We certainly don’t know all the details so we will cut Mr. Dundon some slack. What do all know is that the NFL was not built overnight, it was years before it reached profitability. So have we come to a point in our society where everything just cost too much to start and see through? Or is it people in business are far too impatient these days? Maybe a little of both and more besides.

The AAF Was a Great Attempt!

How many Pro Football Leagues, outside the NFL, have we seen come and go? There have been 6 since 1969 not counting Arena Football which may have lasted longer than any of the others. The XFL only lasted one season but at least they got past their post season championship game. Rumor has it the XFL is suppose to start up again in 2020.

Will the AAF return? It’s doesn’t look likely. Had they finished the season, maybe, but as it is now the brand is damaged. It would take a lot to restore confidence to players and fans for a reboot. However, if they got the right funding…that is someone to back them until it actually has a chance to grow a fan base and start making a profit, well, anything is possible. People tend to forget how things start. Amazon started and ran for years without showing a profit. Now Amazon is the biggest merchandiser on the web and expanding out into brick and mortar stores as well. Just think where we would be now if they had pulled the plug on Amazon less than a year after it started up!

(Read more about it at Wikipedia or go to the AAF website.)

Avengers Endgame

Wow! Another Avengers movie will be released at the end of this month.

Avengers: Endgame is an upcoming American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team the Avengers, produced by Marvel Studios and set for distribution by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is the direct sequel to 2018’s Avengers: Infinity War, a sequel to 2012’s Marvel’s The Avengers and 2015’s Avengers: Age of Ultron, and the 22nd film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film is directed by Anthony and Joe Russo with a screenplay by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely and features an ensemble cast including Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Don Cheadle, Paul Rudd, Brie Larson, Karen Gillan, Danai Gurira, Bradley Cooper, and Josh Brolin. In the film, the surviving members of the Avengers and their allies work to reverse the damage caused by Thanos in Infinity War.

The film was announced in October 2014 as Avengers: Infinity War – Part 2. The Russo brothers came on board to direct in April 2015, and by May, Markus and McFeely signed on to script the film. In July 2016, Marvel removed the title, referring to it simply as Untitled Avengers film. Filming began in August 2017 at Pinewood Atlanta Studios in Fayette County, Georgia, shooting back-to-back with Infinity War, and ended in January 2018. Additional filming took place in the Metro and Downtown Atlanta areas and New York. The official title was revealed in December 2018.

The film is scheduled for release in the United States on April 26, 2019, in IMAX and 3D.

Source: Wikipedia 

Check out the Avengers: Endgame trailer!

Another Big Brother Report

“Seattle is dying.” according to veteran Seattle reporter Eric Johnson of KOMO. Last month he did a documentary which exposes the epic homeless problem which city officials have done nothing about other than install policies to encourage the problem. A real journalist in the city finally had enough. But rather than admit there is a problem the city officials are doing their best to discredit the reporter and the documentary. In effect that are saying “It’s not as bad as it looks on TV. There is no runaway homeless problem. Everything is fine. nothing to see here”

According to leaked documents, the City of Seattle and its allies have retained a crisis-communications firm to discredit, the reporter, Eric Johnson, and insist, despite all evidence to the contrary, that “Seattle is making progress to end homelessness, and proven solutions are working.”

Can you say, “Orwell’s Ministry of Truth.” The strategy seems to be dependent on Seattle mayor Jenny Durkan using taxpayer resources to attack a respected local journalist and convince taxpayers that they shouldn’t trust their own eyes, with homelessness and addiction and piles of human feces on the streets. Remember, Big Brother always tries to propagandize the exact opposite of the real. This development begs for further observation.

Source: RushLimbaugh.com,  City-Journal.org

Steve Cioccolanti of Australia tells it like it is! Pastor Cioccolanti explains why we should not submit to the Big Brother tyrants of the world…

 Since we began our 3 part article on “Big Brother is Watching Us” 3 weeks ago, we keep seeing more and more evidence of the reality of 1984 in 2019. As we run across more we’ll keep you informed.

Kirby’s DC Comics Covers

Okay, now let’s take a look at some comics from the Mega Comics Group!…